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NEWS SFZIAEY. fit./Ill
The Chicago boarder trade re-elect¬
ed A. M. Wright president.
Omaha erected 1,600 new buildings
last year, at a cost of $5,024,000.
married Secretary Macon, Lamar and Georgia, Mrs. Holt Wednes¬ were
at
day.
The Missouri House elected J. W,
Alexander, speaker. of Daviess county, as
E. Duncan Sniffen, an advertising
agent ot New York city, has failed for
$ 100 , 000 .
John L. Sullivan is said to have
cleared $12,000 from his sparring tour
in Montana.
James W. Reid has resigned Fifth his seat
in Congress for the district of
North Carolina.
The Pennsylvania company has ar¬
ranged to heat two*hundred of its
freight-cars with oil-stoves.
The Minnesota Republican legisla¬
tive caucus selected ex-Governor Davis
as its candidate for senator.
Joseph Tosso, the violinist who com¬
Thursday posed "The in Arkansas Covington, Traveler,” Ky. died
New York is threatened with a fam¬
ine in fuel, on account ot a strike of
coal-heavers in New Jersey.
! Judge Samuel F.Greer died suddenly
at Decatur. III., where he had been on
the bench for twenty-five years.
The Dolores Land and Cattle com¬
pany of Texas has made an assign¬
ment to secure debts of $500,000.
The foundry of E. P. Allis & Co., at
Milwaukee, The was burned Thursday eve¬
ning. loss is estimated at $250,
The Republicans of the Michigan
legislature Stockbridge, have of Kalamazoo, nominated tor F. Sen¬ B.
ator.
John R. Webster, the nominee ot
the independent speaker democrats, North was elect¬
ed of the Carolina
house.
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts,
reports an increase of $10,199,500 for
the ban past year in the deposits of savings
KSt
Benjamin F. Brooks, a leading mem¬
ber of the Boston bar, expired very
plexy. suddenly on Tuesday night, from apo¬
A temperature registered of by 40 degrees spirit thermo¬ below
zero was
night. meters at Fort Keogh on Wednesday
' Charles Godfrey, Indians, a son of the chief
of the Miami living near
shotgun. Wabash, Ind., killed himself with a
I
1 It is positively stated that at Aitkin,,
Minnesota, during registered Thursday 60 degrees night, be¬ the
thermometer
low zero.
Rev. A Waldo jury at Messaros Philadelphia of the charge acquitted of
feloniously assaulting Mrs. Mary
Coulston.
A solid bed of red hematite ore, said
to be as has pure been as discovered any on the Wausau, Gogebic
range, at
Wisconsin.
So firm is the ice in the St. Lawrence
that teams Cape are crossing Vincent,, between distance King¬ of
ston and a
twelve miles.
James Ryan, the newlv-appointed
postmaster of Appleton. Wisconsin, and is
one of the pioneers of that town, a
veteran editor.
Sharp earthquakes Charleston were and felt Summer¬ Tuesday
morniug ville, 8. C., at but damage to build*
no
ings resulted.
The contract tor the construction of
the naval cruiser Charleston was
awarded to the Union Iron Works, of
San Francisco.
The attorney general of Ohio has
brought suits in ejectment against Akron
squatters on canal property in
valued at $590,000.
On increased wages of nearly 20 per
cent the Edgar Thomson steel-works
at Braddock, Pennsylvania, has re¬
sumed operations.
The Illinois legislature organized by
electing Mr. Berggren president pro
tem. of the senate and W. F. Calhoun
speaker oi the house.
The thermometer dropped to 22° in
sections of Northern Florida Tuesday
morning. places Orange damaged. trees in exposed
were
itentiary A dying confessed convict iu having the Missouri murdered pen¬
and robbed JudsouC. Armstrong, near
Odessa two years ago.
The chief aspirants for the Texas
Senatorship Terrell, are Ireland, Maxey, Rea¬
gan, and with the probabili¬
ties favoring the former.
The New York chamber of com¬
merce ing S. S. has Cox’s adopted bill appropriating resolutions favor¬ $30,
000,000 for coast defences.
James Spencer, of Whitehall. New
York, has Keen nominated by Presi¬
dent Cleveland to be associate justice
of the supreme court of Dakota.
There are five or six inches of snow
at sissippi. Macon, In Geoi^ia, the latter and Jackson, Mis¬
filled with improvised city sleighs. the streets
are
The governor of Indiana reports the
total The debt of that state at $6,006,000.
one-fourth insane the hospital entire consumes about
revenue of the
state.
In each house of the Missouri legis¬
lature a bill has been introduced for
the submission to the people, of the
question of prohibiting the liquor
traffic.
house During a prayer-meeting Eldorado Springs, at a school- Mo.,
near a
man named Oakes raised a disturb¬
ance, and then killed a worshiper with
a knife.
John Roach, the famous ship-build¬
er, is kept in bed under the influence
of anodynes. His physicians regard
his this cancer month. as likely to cause his death
i In the Federal court at St Louis, on
a sentenced plea of guilty, to three Joseph H. in White was
years the peni¬
tentiary for counterfeiting Brazilian
•hank notes.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St
Haul road has secured a right of way
into Kansas City from the north, in
addition to entrance over the belt line
on the sooth.
( Two butterine factories at Pittsburg
-were of decision permanently sustaining dosed, the on account law
a state
.oleomargarine. against the manufacture or sale of
: J ostm A. Jacob*, for the past thirty
yean city clerk at Cambridge, *'
•chueetts, it committed known suicide rather
•than have that he wasade
lauiter legislature for pi.sn
i The C. Lounsburjr of Connecticut elect
.•d 'JamasI* P. governor and
Howard lieutenant governor.
They were the BepubUoaa candidates
to »
fisheries Reports from the New England
show that the Twenty-six past year was a
very disastrous one. ves¬ and
sels were lost, valued at 9152,000,
137 persons were drowned.
John 8 . Newberry, whose death at
Detroit is reported, was interested in
railway, steamboat, and banking 006 en¬
terprises to tiie extent of 93 , , 000 .
He served one term in Congress.
M. 8. Quay is the nominee of the
Republican caucus for senator from
Pennsylvania. The Democrats in the
Maine legislature will support Will¬
iam H. Clifford for senator.
Three members of the Salvation
army at Sedalia, Mo., were heavily
fined for a brutal assault upon a coun¬
try lad who attempted to escort home
a female soldier at the close of a serv
ice.
The Henry Clay Mine, the most ex¬
tensive property of the Reading Rail
road ant ii employing 1.800 men, is on
fire. Frequent gas explosions have been are re¬
ported burned. anu four men severe¬
ly and Weaver, the
Wittrock, Haight, pleaded guilty Tues¬
express robbers, sentenced;
day at St. Louis, and were
Wittrock and Weaver Haight five to seven in years the
penitentiary. each, and to years
Charles C. Wheeler, formerly of
Bloomington, Illinois, was arrested at
Willimantic, Connecticut, from for grand Gov¬
larceny, on a requisiiion loan agent
ernor Oglesby. people. He was a
for eastern
The judges of twenty-one counties
in the drouv,ht-affUcted region of
Texas met at Albany and issued an
appeal to the country at large for
$500,000 witli which to relieve thirty
thousand destitute persons.
The surrogate at Buffalo decided to
admit to probate the will of the late
Frank Tracy, and virtually made the
contestants bear their own costs. Tiie
only child was cut off fight with $100,000,
and there is 81,000,000 to for.
Mrs. Logan expressed to an intimate
friend of her late husband her opposi¬
tion to the burial of the remains in
the space set apart on the lake front
at Chicago and tier willingness to parks ac¬
cept a location aloug the South
or boulevards.
The message of the governor of Min¬
nesota, in dealing with railroad ques¬
tions, suggests the free storage of
grain, urges legislation the against of water¬ and
ing stock and giving passes,
recommends fares. the general cheapening
of passenger
The French minister of commerce
announces that for the first time in
history wheat of excellent quality and
superior weight has been exported by
Russia from the Caucasus. Large car¬
goes have been sent from the ports of
Poti and Batoum.
The trade review for the past year
shows that the steel and iron industry
has been particularly prosperous, but
the prediction is made that unless
prices stop where they are the present
year foreign will see ntaterial. a flooding of the country
with
The members of the troublesome St.
Albertos’ church, in with Detroit, which recently
contributed $2,000 to send
two Poles to Rome to confer with the
pope. The delegates were last heard
from at Chicago, whence each. they wrote
back foi $300 more
President Cleveland received a call
from a young man penitentiary, whom he recently who
desired pardoned to from a his gratitude and
express of future good
offer assurances with con¬
duct. . lie was treated courtesy
and given encouragement.
A leak in a naturai-gas main at
Youngstown, O., caused block, an explosion South
in the new Andrews on
Market street. Flames burst out at
once, and the entire building destroyed. and the
First The total Baptist loss is church $100,000. were
The Nebraska with N. legislature V. Harlan organized speak¬
Tuesday, of the House, and George as D. Mc
er
Keljohn, Harlan is president friend of of the Senator Senate. Van As
a
Wyck, the latter thinks his prospects
for re-election look bright.
The Montana Central road has been
graded the entire length from Rimini
to Great Falls, but the rates demanded
by the Union and Northern Pacific
roads for the transportation of rails
and materials have utterly months. blocked the
project for eighteen
Moses C. Nixon, residing near Mat
toon, tive engineers Illinois, arranged to put with his two loco
up farm as
the chief prize in a lottery. They were
convicted in the district court at
costs Springfield, imposed and a fine each of $100 of them. and
was upon
The Paris correspondent of the Lon¬
don and Germany limes again have asserts concluded that Russia direct
a
alliance, binding the former to remain
neutral in the event of war between
France and Germany, and the latter in
a possible conflict between Russia and
Austria.
A man claiming to be the perpetra¬
tor of the recent dynamite outrage on
a cable road in San Francisco has writ¬
ten to a newspaper in that city that
the responsible parties are members
of an organization formed in Chicago
directly sion. after the Haymarket explo¬
The vault of the bank of Wick
Brothers & Co., at Youngstown, Ohio, the
became filled with gas during
double holiday. When a match was
struck, which tore there out occurred the front an and explosion side of
the building and seriously burned the
bookkeeper.
in Annie Toledo O’Connor, hotel, employed received last informa¬ year
a
tion that a vast estate in publication England had of
been left to her. The
the story called out a letters from
James O’Keefe, a prominent citizen of
Pittsburg, whom she met and married
a few days ago. assist¬
George Keck, for many years infirmary
ant superintendent of the at
Akron, O., has been arrested for
criminal intimacy with an insane in¬
mate. He that intends bodies to retaliate of deceased by a
statement the
paupers are regularly sold to a medical
college in Cleveland.
serving William life Poole sentences and at Joseph Sing Port, Sing,
for the murder of John Ryan, m New
York, Hill. The have policeman been pardoned whose by Gov. tes¬
timony they had been upon convicted bad
on bis death bed confessed that he
committed perjury on their trial.
evening, At Ban Francisco, dynamite on cartridge Wednesday
a was
plaoed in a slot on the Sutter street
cable road. A lady saw a man lift the
trap and lower a lighted package. The
explosion shattered the masonry and
the broke man-holes the pulleys. The blown iron plates two hun¬ on
were
dred feet,
▲ state convention of mini in¬
terested in forest culture has b
celled by the Illinois State Board of
Agriculture to meet at the stats ho
oaths 12th wet. It Is proposed 3
farm * nhrmnn ewf wtitf
to mM
tion"orntKTIT5rforeilain<r Oie*caltIVa
tiou of native trees.
The Republican nominate Congressional candidates for Con¬ the
vention to vacated by the
short and long terms, of Wiscon¬
death of William T. Price, of
sin. resulted in the nomination
Hugo A. Price, son of the late Con¬
gressman, to fill the Norwegian, uuexpired term,
and N. P. Haugen, the long a was
nominated for term.
In the Rhode election Island contest of Page majority vs.
Price, a from the Election case, a Committee
report held that neither is
of the House while the en¬
titled to a seat recommend in Congress, the seating of
minority Price, the Republican sitting member.
In the case of Kidd vs. Steele of In¬
diana a unanimous report was made in
favor of Steele, Republican. the
Judge Gresham has given to
Nodaway Valley bank, in Missouri, Preston,
judgment for $18,000 Chicago, against for not tak¬
Kean & Co., of of bonds deposited by
tiie ing proper former care institution collateral.
as
The securities were stolen by Frederick
M. Ker. The evidence allowed that
Mr. Kean had heard of Ker’s gambling city.
operations before he fled the
In the federal court at Cleveland the
decision was made that the first mort¬
gage on tlie Nickel-Plate road only is general illegal
tiie bondholders being of $15,000,000.
creditors to the amount
The road was therefore sold under the
second mortgage for $10,000,000. The
validity of car-trust certificates for
$4,000,000 was affirmed. Tne consoli¬
dation of five state pronounced corporations illegal. into
one company was
The decision is a complete victory for
the Vanderbilts.
The fishery troubles and the recent
elections in Canada have tended to
bring about a Cabinet break-up, and
John Costigan, Minister of Internal
Revenue, and Mr. Poster, Minister of
Fisheries, will probably resign. It is
♦ettled that unless the United States
makes some overtures looking toward
« settlement of the fishery dispute back the
Canadian Government will go io
Die old system of The licensing foreign will fish¬ be
ing vessels. license
cnarged, as formerly, upon the ton¬
nage of the vessel.
Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, in in
calling attention to the fact that
August 267 convicts at Joliet will be
relieved from contract labor under the
ronstiutional amendment recently
adopted, asks legislation to the provide
;or the contingency. During canal past
year the Illinois and Michigan expenditures,
yielded $50,547 over all
l'he governor recommends early steps
toward the eradication restoration of pleuro-pneu- of the live¬
monia and the
stock trade. The receipts ot the state
treasury for two years were $9,591,342.
While the “Modoc” express from
Chicago, on the Boston and Albany
road, was passing a freight train early
T tesday morning of near wheels West Spring- of the
•b.d, Mass., broke, one throwing the the train
against <xpress the freight, and ter¬
causing a
rible wreck. • One man was burned to
death, another was fatally wounded, Of two
and several were injured.
corpses on the express, one was cre
mai ed, and fourteen first-class western
mail pouches and seventy-three bags
of second-class matler were destroyed.
lias A. accomplished C. Flora, of the Campbellville, remarkable Ky., feat
of eating sixty quails in thirty conse¬ The
cutive davs. and is still eating.
>irds, with a small quantity of water, each
aie liis only diet. lie eats two
day, and lias them cooked in differ¬
ent ways—stewed, fried, or fricasseed,
John It. Davis and W. O. Haskins
have put up $500 on the result. Has¬
kins bets that Flora while can Davis eat eighty
birds in fort >rty days, says
he cannot . Flora experiencing already shows feeling signs
of giving out, manifest¬ a
of nausea. Great interest is
ed and bets run high that Flora will
give out. Bodwell, of Maine,
Governor was
inaugarated Thursday. His address
recommends prevent a rigid the enforcement introduction of of
the law to
Dleuro-pneumonia, and suggests the
establishment of a national guard in
place of the state militia; the preven¬
tion of children under fifteen years of
age from working in factories; the
restriction of labor in all corporations
of ten hours a day, and the enactment
of a law establishing He "arbor recommends day” as an
annual holiday. also
as a simple remedy for the fishery
troubles the levying of such increased
duties on what fish Canada sends to
the not United wholly States exclude as would Canadian partially fisher¬ if
men from our markets.
An east-bound freight, while run¬
ning on an up-grade, Tuesday the village morn¬
ing, within halt a mile of
of Republic, Ohio, gave out ou and was
unable to make the grade, The con
ductor ran forward with a signal to
flag the fast train, No. 5, oi the Balti¬
more & Ohio, which left New York at
9 A. M . Monday for Chicago, but it
wsis too > lsito late. The fast train was less
than a quarter of a mile distant, run¬
ning at the rate it of crashed sixty-three into miles the
per hour, and
freight, the baggage, wrecking both smoking engines and and
express, of the
one passenger car passenger
train. Within an almost incredible
short space of time the wreck was in
flames, and burned. the injured Tiie passengers
were being sleepers and passengers coach
in the two one fifty.
escaped, numbering about Fif¬
teen passengers m the smoker are
thought to have been killed. The engi¬
neer of the passenger dislocated jumped knee. The and
escaped fireman with a pinned between two
was
beams, crushing his hips. He lived
three mortal hours in that position
and then died. Nine charred and
blackened bodies, with the limbs burn¬
ed off, were removed and laid in a
row on the floor of the undertaker's
room. The sight was a horrible one,
and there was no resemblance to hu¬
man bodies in the remains. At At least least
six and more are entirely supposed burned to have perished There
been up.
is nothing about the bodies which can
help to identify them. It is claimed
by some or the passengers that there
were eighteen people m the smoker.
If this in all De have true been it is loot, thought only fifteen three
lives as
are known to have escaped.
A large item in the expense of main¬
taining* bill. The sleeping-car Pullman Company’s is the washing entire
outfit includes 50,000 sheets, 48,000
pillow slips, IS,000 blankets, 16,000
hand towels and 6,000 roller towels.
A oar is entirely emptied and cleaned
ns soon as it reaches its destination,
and laundry. the linen The it Wagner sent straight Company's to the to¬
tal equipment it 4,000 woolen blankets,
5,740 13.85! hand linen.sheets, towels and 18,802 t,S47 pillow roller slips, tow
ala. Comps The expense ay's bedding of keeping clean the is Wag- $60,
000 a year; the Pullman Company's Is
larger.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Representative Springer, after a careful
study of the Pacific railsoad question, the Outh- has
decided to offer an amendment to
waite refunding bill requiring the com¬
panies to discharge their debt to tne gov¬
ernment In twenty-six years, by annual in¬
stallments, of 63,877,410. debt during
December The decrease In *9,353,202. the public Tiie interest
was
bearing bonds now amount to *1,130,494,462. stead¬
The treasury stock ot last, gold and lias is been *170,
ily gaining since J uly holdings now of -
812,413. have The rapidly government’s fallen off for
silver some
months, the aggregate being *75,998,944.
The paymaster-general of the army, m a
circular publishing the recent act for the
relief of tiie West Point graduates affected
by the controller’s decision iu the Rod man
case, states that claims presented by officers
who have not been paid in accordance with
the act referred to, and that are chargeable last fiscal
to the appropriations of the two
years, will be paid by tiie officers of the pay
department with the pay accounts of the
current quarter. Claims be chargeable settled by the to
prior appropriations will
accounting officers of the treasury. About
300 officers will have money retunded to
them under the act.
MOVEMEYT OF GBAIY.
The report of the Senate committee on
transportation routes to the seaboard on
Die subject of railroad other countries freights in makes the
United States and
500 pages of printed matter aud contains
many valuable tables and much informa¬
tion on the subject of transportation, in gath¬ the
ered from nearly every country indicates
world. Tiie first table United presented States for
the progress of the a gen¬
eration. Thirty-three bushels years of ago wheat we pro¬ and
duced 100.000.000 bushels Twice
about 600,000,000 ot corn.
in recent years we have readied 500,000,000
bushels of wheat, and in l'8o the corn crop
reached 1,800,000,000 bushels— a fivefold in¬
crease in wheat and a threefold increase iu
corn. The increase in otiier cereals has
not been so rapid. In tiie export trade
wheat ranks first in value, $2,600,0 and in fifty
eight years has added Kt ,000 to the
value of our national production, a sum
equivalent to four times the value ot ex
ported corn and cornmeal during the same
period. The report shows that the difference in
the prices of corn between tiie Atlantic
ports and the lake ports has steadily de¬
clined from 21 cents per bushel in 1873
10 cents per bushel iu 1883; between the
Atantic ports, and the western river ports,
from 19 cents in 1873 to 11 cents in 1888.
This in a measure shows the tendency of
freight rates to decrease.
Regarding the question of long and short
hauls the committee came to the conclusion
that local freight rates “are evidently
levied on the somewhat will general The principle
of what the traffic bear. bushel report
says tiie cost of nearly transporting equitable a in Massa¬ of
wheat is more
chusetts than m any other slate represent¬
ed, although there it finds a lesser rate for
thirty-six miles than for fifteen. The re¬
port continues:
In Pennsylvania Massachusetts. local In rates Oiiio are the higher
than m rate
is about the same oil 60 miles as it is ou 80,
while the long haul of 216 miles, instead of
being relatively less, is relatively greater.
In Massachusetts iu 18-3 it cost 4.6 cents to
transport a busheiof wheat 64 miles; the
cost m Connecticut. tor transporting tiie
same quantity of grain 62 miles was7cents;
in Pennsylvania, 60 miles, 4.2 cents, aud iu
Ohio, 69 miles, 5 cents. Of course the con¬
ditions may not have been the same.
Farther west we find Kansas paying 4.2
cents per bushel miles, for anil transporting Massachusetts, a bushel for
of wheat 40
the same service, 36 miles, 2.2 cents, while
California pays 5.3 cents per bushel for £0
miles.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate.
Jay. 4.—In the Senate journal to-day, as concluded, soon as
tiie reading of the was
Mr. Cullom took the floor and said: “Mr.
President, the angel ot death stalks through
the unexpected land, and during his visitation the brief lias been of most the
recess
Senate, imposing on me a duty perform—the which I
have scarcely the heart death to
duty of announcing the of my dis¬
tinguished olleague. At his home, which
overlooks tins Capital city, at 2:27 o’clock
ou Sunday, tiie 26th day of December, flight the
spirit of John A. Logan took its to
the unknown realms fuueral ot ceremonies eternity; and on
Friday last his were
conducted by the senators and representa¬
tives present in this Senate chamber, and the
his mortal remains were conveyed to
silent tomb.
“We are cailed upou to mourn the loss of
one of the bravest and noblest of men—a
state man and loved of by the the nation; patriotic people Known of his to
a man
his country and to the civilized world, and
for nearly fourteen years I a distinguished
member of tiiis Senate. shall not at this
the time, Mr. President, attempt due the to pronounce of
words which are to memory
one who for so conspicuous many years performed in tiie so
important and a part
affairs of this republic. At an early day I
shall seek to introduce appropriate I be resolu¬ best
tions aud shall speak, as may
able, of the character and public services of
our associate; when an opportunity will be
& iven to the senators Mr. to President, Kay fitting tribute of
n, ids memory. out
respect for the memory of tiie deceased
Senator Logan I move that the Senate do
now Tiie adjourn.” motion agreed to, and the Sen¬
was
ate adjourned.
Jay. 5.~In the Senate Mr. McPherson
offered a resolution Treasury for calling statement on the Secre¬ of the
tary of the a
indebtedness of the Pacific railroad com¬
panies to the government Jan. 1,1S87, with
details of all payments inade on account of
t.ie same; also as to the sums due or to be¬
come due (principal and interest) under
existing laws severally, and what differ¬
ence would result to the treasury if the
pending funding bill should become a law.
Mr. Hoar moved to amend tiie resolution
by adding to it these words: “And a state¬
ment of ail existing debts questions in dispute iu regard between to
•mount of such
said McPherson companies argued and tiie against government” tiie proposed Mr.
amendment as tending toward delay, and
suggested that if Mr. Hoar would promise
not to bring up the bill at the present ses¬
sion lie would withdraw his resolution.
Mr. Hoar expressed but offered his great surprise to at
call tiie proposition, the bill until the information to agree not asked
uu
was obtained. Plumb introduced bill to fix the
Senator a
amount ot United States bonds to be re¬
quired of National banks.
An appropriation bill for $600,000 to pro¬
mote tiie Colored People’s World’s Exposi¬
tion. to be held in Birmingham, Ala., from
Sept. 22, 1887, to Jan. 31, 1888, was intro¬
duced by Mr. Blair.
Senator Sherman introduced a bill to
provide that all persous on the pension
rolls for loss ot limb or limbs shall be en¬
titled to receive arrears of pension from the
date of Mitchell, discharge or direction disability. the pension
Mr. Dy of
committee, of reported John the Logan bill granting pension the of
widow A. a objected
*2,000 a year. Senator Cockrell
under a misapprehension, and afterwards
withdrew his opposition. objection Senator and Coke, tbe
bill however, had renewed until the to-morrow. It will
to go over
undoubtedly be passed by a large vote, but
regret colleagues is beard in the that Senate any should of Gen. feel Logan’s called
upon to oppose Is the MU. Senator Coke’s
opposition said to fee a far-fetched fear
that the bill would be a precedent for a
civil pension-list. Us does not question
Gen. try, tat Logan's the military General, services unlike to Grant ths coun¬ and
as
Hancock, did nos *dls nr. officer of the
regular way, the Texas Senator is fearful
of making provision for his widow. This
was dons, however, In the cess of Gen.
P. Blair and the spectre of a civil
pceatoa-tist did not frighten any oas. ,
Jam. 1—The Senate today r esumed een»
ot Umi inter*«I aH
Mr Piart haring ths 6a
that a rats of oenytag
ss HI
SB!
oThfer busliifes,Was mappJciibiAErnils TTuiT
uess and of railroads. unprofitable How did the railroads presidents at¬
managers ot
tempt now to make money? Not by the
business of their roads, but by stock-job¬
bing. bill because he
Mr. Morgan opposed the
thought any measure which forced tiie rail¬
road companies to raise thoir charges or
freights for long hauls would be inimical
to the best interests of his state, and because the
both the sale market of his for constitueuts purchase at
market of were
a great distance.
Mr. Cullom gave notice that he would
ask the Senate on Tuesday uutii or the Wednesday bill
next to remain in session was
disposed In executive of. session the Senate passed
bills granting pensions of $2.0 0 per annum
to tiie widows of Generals John A. Logan
and Frank l’. Biair, and to carry into effect
the treaty with China for tiie suppression
of the opium traffic. The Senate agreed to
Mr. McPherson’s resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury for Pacific a statement roads
of tiie indebtedness of the to
the go.eminent and the probaole effect of
the funding bill.
Jay. 7.—In the Senate in favor to-day several
petitions were presented of tiie ex¬
perimental agricultural stations bill. Also
a remonstrance signed by many business
men of Dayton, 0.. Men's against ami petitions
from the Business club of Kenosha,
Wis., ami from ihe Wisconsin State grange
in favor of the interstate commerce bill.
Mr. Call offered a resolution declaring
that certain in Florida lands shall granted be forfeited, lor railroad and pur¬
poses in¬
structing the Attorney General to briug
suit against all corporations attempting to
ell or advertise where public lands embraced iu
railroad grants bill for forfeiture are
pending before Congress. He asked to
have it laid hereafter. ou the table, and said he would
c ill it np
The S mate then proceeded tiie following to business bills: on
the calendar, and passed
Te settle and adjust the claims of any
state for expenses incurred by it in defense
of the United States. •
Mr. Manderson, from the committee oil
military providing affairs, for reported back the House
Dill a seiiool of instruction for
cavalry aud light artillery at Fort Riley_
struction Kansas, and for the completion the and con¬
of quarters for army at cer¬
tain posts. The bill was amended by ap¬
propriating $30,000 for Fort D. A. Russell
and $55,COO for Fort Robinson, Nebraska,
nd was Beck passed.
Mr. inquired of Mr. Evarts as to the
bill to prevent members of Congress acting
as attorneys for subsidized railroads, ana
suggested tetscate that it be bill. taken up after the in
commerce
Mr. Evarts said that that would suit him.
After an executive session the Senate ad¬
journed until Monday.
House.
Jay. 4.—In the House Mr. Thomas
offered unanimously the following adopted: resolution, which was
Resolved, That tiie House has heard with
great sorrow the announcement of the
death of tiie Hon. United John A. Logan, late
Senator of the States from the state!
of Illinois.
for “As the a further deceased evidence statesman,” of the respect said Mr.j felt
Thomas, “I move that the House do now!
adjourn, giving notice that at a later House day I
will ask that the proceedings of the 1
be suspended in order bear that testimony his colleagues his
and trieuds may to
WOJ’tll*
The motion was agreed to, and the House
adjourned.
Jay. 5.—In the House to-day the call ot
the Mr. committees Davidson, having behalf been of the dispensed committee with,
on on,
railways and canals, called up in the morn¬
ing hour tiie of the bill Erie for the and permanent Oswego canals iuH
provemeut and to the freedom of the tot
secure same
the commerce of the United States. The!
bill was considered in committee of the
whole, Mr. Crisp in tiie chair.
The bill provides the Treasury for the of issuing bonds bearing by tiie
Secretary of
2K per cent interest to an amount not ex¬
ceeding *5,000,000, to be delivered to the
state of New York upon the completion of
certain the improvements lias pledged therein itself specified, that said' and
after state
canals shall be maintained the United by said States, state
free to the commerce of
or in event that these canals shall cease to
be free to tiie commerce of the United
States the state will repay so much as shall
have been so received.
Mr. Weber, the introducer of the meas-,
ure, advocated its passage, which the dwelling freedom upon ot
the important factor
the .Erie and Oswego canals to the com¬
merce of the country would form in pro¬
viding cheap transportation for the The pro¬
ducts of the west to the seaboard.
provisions of the bill were fair to the nation
and to the state of New York.
The House passed the Indian appropria¬
tion bill, covering *5,115,000, as also the
military academy appropriation bill.
Jay. 6.—The of House whole to-day (Mr. Springer went into in
committee the
bill, the chair) which ou appropriates the pension *''6,247,500, appropriation being
only $5,000 below tiie estimates—the reduc¬
tion being in the item for the rent of offices
for pension agencies. Without amendment
or discussion and the bill was read, reported to
the The House, naval reorganization passed. bill debated
was
by Mr. Sayers, of Texas, who advocated
tiie bill and weak drew a fight deplorable aud picture slow to of a
navy too to too run
away, and of navy-vards useless and worn
out and utterly incapable and, of constructing the
first-class war vessels; in tracing
causes of this worthlessness and decay to
the cumbersome organization of the navy,
he fortified his position with extracts from
the expressed opinions of Secretaries Whit¬
ney and Chandler.
Mr. Boutalie opposed the bill. The ex¬
isting organization of the navy was aud adequate
to ail demands of the present all the
probable requirements of the future. Under
the organization as it stood to-day the
United States navy department, confronted
in 1861 by a more gigantic foe tiian it was
likely to meet iu the immediate future, had
been enabled in the twinkling equipment of an eye te
call into existence a naval great!
and effective in power and resources.
Mr. Henderson introduced a bill author¬
izing Ijie construction of a bridge Iowa. across Re- thei
Mississippi river at Dubuque,
furred reform the
Tiie House committee on in
civil service lias adopted without amend¬
ment the bill recently passed office by the Senate
repealing the tenure of act, and has
instructed Mr. Cox, of North House Carolina, to
call it up for action in the at the
earliest The possible then moment adjourned.
House
Jay. 7.—On motion ot Mr. Perkins, of
Kansas, tiie House to-day passed the Senate!
bill amending and the Fox act and providing Iowa Indian for the sale
of the Sac The amend¬ reser
tion in Nebraska and Kansas,
ment provides lor the allotment of lands in
severalty to minors and orphans.
Mr. Hatch made an unsuccessful effort to
have private business dispensed with for
tiie day for the purpose the consideration of enabling of thei the
House to resume of
bill for the creation of a the department
agriculture and labor, whole but (Mr. Mouse MeMillau went,
into committee of the
in the cnair) on the private calendar. The
committee soon rose aud half a dozen bills;
were {Hissed by 7:30 the House, which then took
a recess until p.m.
At the evening session the House passed;
forty-two 930 pension month bills, to including the widow one of grant¬ Gen.
Durbin ing Ward. per
Queen Victoria,
Mrs, OU phantsays in The November
Century, w mere she writes of “Queen
Victoria:" “We hold it oneof the most
absurd of poetical fallacies that ‘love’
in the ordinary sense of the word is
•woman’s whole existence,’ yet it is
very true that the history of a woman
is chiefly the history of her affections
and the does relationship in which her
dearest interests are always
traded. It is true also of a m h
these lie the real records of his hwnh
THE ACADIANJWILD MAN.«
Down in the rich ailnvi&I delta of
Louisiana there winds to the sea a slow
brown bayou called the Terrebonne
from the fertility of the black loamy
land through which it flows. Big sugar
plantations the lie along its ccpirse, but
near mouth are the homes of many
Acadians, for this was one of the
Louisiana. streams along which they settled in
They cultivate little rice farms and
orange groves, and live in summer upon
their gardens fishing in winter—upon and the produce the of their
abounds in the game that
marshes. Since their
exile they, like the Bourbons, have for¬
ing. gotten Their nothing language, and have customs learned noth¬
identically and
manners are the same as the
day when
With the turn of the tide the ships sailed out
of the harbor.
And the coasts of their beloved land grew
misty with distance.
In among these thriving little farms
weedy Is a large tract Great of land, a melancholy,
waste. forest trees have
grown up in the midst of what were fair
fields that waved with golden rice.
Fences .and boundaries long ago rotted
away. The ditches are choked with
grass, and young willows grow alon<*
their line. The whole is matted witt
the tion tangled brought"up growth from of the lavish vegeta¬
this fertile soil by
the tropical suns and wild rains. Some¬
times at dusk you will catch a glimpse
of a bent figure skulking away from the
door of a ruined cottage whose chim¬
neys have fallen in, whose roof is a
green pulpy mass of lichen, and whose
walls totter forward to a fall. The
old neighbors Allandin, will the explain wild that it is only
man.
' If you will lie in wait about this hour
of the day, concealed iu the underbrush,
you may catch a closer glimpse of him.
He looks seventy, but is not really so
old. His once tall form is bent, and he
walks with the quick, creeping move¬
ments of an animal. Long gray hair
hangs in filthy matted locks to nis waist
and mingles with his great sweeping
from beard. Two wrinkled, large pallid dark face eyes gaze through out
a
the rough hair with a glare like a cat.
His hands are like rough, knotted
•Jaws, and his whole body has a growth
of coarse hair upon it His only cover¬
ing is a pair of brown blankets, through
which a hole has been torn to admit
his head, and he creeps silently away
every is night into the the forest tell: swamps.
This the story neighbors
Thirty years ago there parish was no more
prosperous farm in the than that
of Etienne Allandin, and no more
respected man than its rich young
owner. He was alone in the world with
the exception of some distant cousins,
but his friends were many, and he was
betrothed to a pretty young g if! who
was to marry him in the next Ma arch.
splendid His face dark was plain, except for his
eyes, but he had a warm,
gentle heart, and was a fine parti, so
that he would not have asked any
parent around for twenty miles for their
daughter in vain. According to old
Acadian usage, he built a new house
that winter, that spending hold loving little care upon
ihe nest was to his mate.
The wedding day approached. The
happy -bridegroom eorbeille, made usual, ready only the
marriage his gifts the as was splendid
were most ever
seen wedding in that simple neighborhood. real white silk, The
gown was of
the veil, wreath of wax orange flowers,
with all the the white shoes from New and Orleans. gloves, had
come way March
He rose early that lovely morn¬
ing, and arrayed himself carefully in
his" black, shiny clothes, casting tender,
amused glances at tile little feminine
garments Acadian lying woman’s on that heart, pride of plump, every
a
strong bed with ruffled pillows. He
was making ready up be a earned parcel of these the bride gar¬
ments to to
when an embarrassed and sympathetic
delegation bride had disappeared. came to inform him had that eloped the
She
with a handsome young good-for-naught
who had been refused by her parents,
and had left not a word for‘her be¬
trothed. Allandin stood like a man,
stunned; then he turned every one out,
and shut himself in with his ruined
happiness. whispered
Soon the neighbors that
the new house was empty and Allandin'
had gone away to the swamp. From
that day he never spoke to any hid human in his
being. All day the man the
iouse, and with nightfall went to
forest, and like a wild beast sought his
food. Crawfish, lizards, field mice, and
birds, eaten raw, were his sustenance.
His hair and beard grew long and
tangled, his clothes fell to pieces, and a
blanket became his only garb. In all
these thirty years he has never spoken,
and now he knows no human inarticulate language.
His only sounds are a few
cries ,' and he shuns his kind like a
haunted dians have animal. disturbed The sympathetic him, and Aca¬ at
never
nights when they hear a faint echo from
the swamps of a wild human cry, they
look sadly at each other and sav:
“C'est ejmurre Allandin cal!" — N. Y.
Sun.
Origin of Card Games. TV
probably The origin be traced of card with games certainty. can not
It has been generally any believed that
“playing cards, 7 ’ as they are known at
the present day, were invented by a
French painter named Gringonneur, for
the amusement of his imbecile king, the
Charles VI, and it is evident from
following extract from an account of
this king’s treasurer, that this artist did
make for his weak-minded “Paid sovereign Jac
some el egant sets of cards:
quemen Gringonneur, painter, for three
packs of cards, in gold and colors, of
divers devices, to present to said lord
and king for his amusement, sixty sols
parises.” Bat it is claimed that he
merely made copies, possibly in new de¬
signs, of cards cards already well-known, from the east, and
that playing lost came in remote anti¬
their " ori
quity. The Gypsies may have been the
first to introduce them into Europe, but
these were very different in design and
purpose from the cards used in France.
They had in the incidental combination
of their emblematical figures, a fancied
interpretation of the will of the un¬
known Gods, the garnet being a series
of questions addressed to fate, ami bowed to
the results reverential of which the As players early A
with awe. as